Now we just need open source directx and direct draw so all the visualizations work and we’re in business.

Because most oss maintainers are more afraid of their work disappearing due to service shutdowns than they are being profiled by data miners.

Everyone has seen some example of a tool or resource hosted on a persons private server end up taken down because they couldn’t afford it, the isp or university stopped offering hosting or because they simply couldn’t keep doing it due to death or old age.

That’s what people who create software are afraid of. The loss of that creation, not the loss of the privacy of people who contribute to it or download it.

The lockout I see most often isn’t from people forgetting a password or key, but from motherboard failure with a key stored in the motherboards tpm or cpu.

What matters is that the backups are done at the appropriate intervals and verified to be readable.

You can figure out what interval is appropriate. Some people have to make sure every picture is saved, some people are fine losing a month of stuff.

Verifying the backup is valid equally important. You don’t wanna find out it was misconfigured and didn’t get your user directories when you try to restore. Just open one up and look to see every once in a while.

At least fifteen years ago you could set up windows backups through the control panel > backup or something menu. Now on 10 it’s settings > updates and security > backups.

You can click add drive from there and designate a usb or something as your backup drive.

Then set an alarm to make sure you remember to do it at the designated interval.

With android the easiest thing is to sync it to a computer that gets backed up.

You can use cloud services instead of a hard drive too, but often simple and easy to understand is the best place to start.

Do you know why it’s important to have backups before using full disc encryption?

What are you actually gonna be doing? Not 10 virtual machines or whatever you said, what actual services are you gonna be running?

pen and paper.

i have a graph paper notebook for “real” stuff like designs and plans and a little top spiral notebook that lives in my back pocket for quick reminders, notes and ideas.

periodically throughout the day i’ll look at the little notebook and knock out stuff on it or move them to the big one.

the “rite in the rain” brand has waterproof notebooks you can use for when you need to write shit down in tech-averse climates.

do not do anything in this post until you have backups that you know run and work.

device encryption is fantastic.

Your just mad no one can uncuted your foreskin

What the hell? This was all reasonable stuff to discuss in newsgroups thirty years ago and every time the equivalent of xz happened but somehow now it indicates someone doesn’t understand open source?

And before someone makes the absurd claim that the limits and constraints of open source were settled back then, a state funded targeted attack on an open source project is as good a catalyst as any to uhh… revisit the priors that the “community” holds dear.

I swear to god you can take the redditors out of Reddit but you can’t take the Reddit out of the redditors.

that’s nice, but the whole reason recapcha and other ai training capchas exist is that it costs money to host and maintain those services and they’re able to recoup those costs by harvesting and monetizing user data.

capchas literally do have to be boring dystopian bullshit because no one will pay for the alternative.

My comment really applies more to vi than vim but everyone’s using them interchangeably nowadays. When implementing systems where internet connection or excess install size aren’t possible or recommended, you gotta be able to work with the tools at hand.

Of course, the comparison is custom cabinetry to ikea. Your local meth head needs to understand how to use hand tools because he or she may need to use them for myriad reasons ranging from “I don’t have the power version of this” to “it’s faster” to “the cut is cleaner” to “they pay me more to use this”. The person designing hudfł needs to be concerned first and foremost with how to shave a sixteenth off every panel so his accounting department doesn’t have to pay to reforest an extra hundred acres this year.

Perhaps someone working entirely in programming has good reason to not know vim, but I still cling to the antiquated notion that the person designing furniture out of manufactured materials ought to be able to build a box you’d feel comfortable with company seeing.

lol if you can’t use vim.

Who cares that you can cut a perfect miter joint with a jig and a table saw when you can’t cut a butt joint with a hand saw.

Ty for reminding me to install fortunemod.

Ty I couldn’t have done it without real life inspiration to guide me.

🏳️‍⚧️ Congratulations on coming out and I wish you a successful transition. 🏳️‍⚧️

Because udp packets are targeted for harassment by border devices like firewalls more often.